TWENTY FINES ISSUED OVER DOWNING STREET COVID BREACH EVENTS

Twenty fines are set to be issued as part of the police inquiry into Downing Street parties that breached Covid rules.

If you are interested in knowing who will be receiving a fine in the post, you are out of luck as police will not be naming the individuals or confirming which events the fixed penalty notices relate to.

However, Downing Street has said it would reveal if the prime minister is among those in breach.

In January, the force launched an investigation into 12 events where COVID restrictions may have been breached in 2020 and 2021.

In a statement the Police said:

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“We are making every effort to progress this investigation at speed and have completed a number of assessments. However due to the significant amount of investigative material that remains to be assessed, further referrals may be made to ACRO if the evidential threshold is made.

As it has for all fixed penalty notices issued during the pandemic, the MPS will follow the College of Policing Approved Professional Practice for Media Relations which states that “Identities of people dealt with by cautions, speeding fines and other fixed penalties – out-of-court disposals – should not be released or confirmed.”

We will not confirm the number of referrals from each individual event subject to our investigation as providing a breakdown at this point may lead to identification of the individuals.”